That's Offensive!

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16. Or trying to return to

I'm a Generation X'er raised in a very blue big city in a very blue state. White supremacist were always a very small, hidden fringe group. Now a so-called president is making it acceptable.

This overt racism is alien to me and friends, but looking at MLK and Ali protests I now get where they came from a lot more.

"Make America Great Again" is code for return to the days of Trump's youth when minorities knew their place.

I don't think Trump or that racist part of the Trump base fully comprehends that not only is current oppression still felt, but even the children and grandchildren of scarred victims of discrimination often share an inner rage - transferred generationally - exponentially greater than their perceived loss of unearned hierarchy.

If they, under some delusion of superiority - when they're all either mind numbingly uneducated or spewing Trump BS without conscious, now decide to directly assault minorities' inner sense of value as human beings - well after achieving hard fought status - its going to met with intense resistance. The greater the overreach the greater the resistance.

I mean - just a final thought - the gall to object to opposition to the confederate flag, and removal of a Robert E. Lee statue - the man who killed hundreds of thousands to preserve the right to ownership of humans as property - and then be surprised if blacks (or anyone) oppose it...are you fucking kidding me?